Highly Automated Driving: Transitions of control authority using Haptic Shared Control

The arrival of highly automated vehicles introduces a new interaction between the vehicle and driver. System limitations during highly automated driving require the driver to be ready to take back control at request.<br/>Previous studies on the take-over process concluded that the driver requires a transition period to stabilize vehicle control...

Complementing Automotive Haptic Shared Control with Visual Feedback for Obstacle Avoidance

The technological advancements in the automotive industry have enabled the automation of numerous routine driving tasks. As a result, the art of driving has become a control task with a strong supervisory character, including the common human factor issues. Haptic Shared Control has been shown to be useful in keeping the driver in-the-loop by...

Effects of Look-Ahead Time in a Haptic Shared Controller for Preview Tracking

In haptic shared control (HSC), an alternative to full automation, a human operator (HO) performs a steering task while being assisted by force feedback on the control device. Human-haptic conflict, caused by misalignment of intentions or different use of reference information, is a source of annoyance and controllers should be designed to...

Hybrid human-centric haptic shared control using artificial neural network and model predictive control

Commercially available Lane Keeping Assist systems fail to consider the driver's intentions since they mainly focus on minimising path tracking errors, resulting in conflicts between humans and automation. This often leads to users being unsatisfactory and turning off the assist, as a result diminishing the advantages such as reduced workload...

Design and real-world evaluation of three types of haptic lane-keeping support systems for truck drivers

Designing lane-keeping assistance (LKA) systems that are both effective and well-liked by drivers is a highly challenging process, that is not well understood. This is illustrated by a wide variety of market releases of LKA systems, and a large body of literature illustrating different designs and various evaluation methodologies that are often...

Dissipating phantom traffic jams with haptic shared control for longitudinal vehicle motion

Traffic jams occurring on highways cause increased travel time as well as increased fuel consumption and crashes. Traffic jams without a clear cause, such as an on-ramp or an accident, are called phantom traffic jams and are said to make up 50% of all traffic jams. They are the result of an unstable traffic flow caused by human driving behaviour...